ISE I Health and Fitness Independent Listening

In this download, you can find a listening activity to help students prepare for the ISE I Independent Listening task and the Health and Fitness subject area. It is a listening text about the world’s healthiest countries.

How to use the ISE I Health and Fitness Independent Listening Activity

There are several ways you can use this resource. You could just use it as a listening exercise to help improve students listening skills. Ask students to listen once and then tell you the gist of the listening text. Then, they listen again and write down notes about what they hear. Afterwards, ask them The six questions about the text.

Alternatively, you could get students to work in pairs and make notes while they listen. When they have listened twice, they work together to try and rebuild the text, as close to the original as possible. This is called a dictagloss activity and it helps students with their sentence formation and with reinforcing the language of the grade.

Finally, you could use the listening text to have a competition. Students work in small groups, they listen and take notes, and then they have to write as many facts as they can on a piece of paper. Give one point for a correct fact and take a point away if the fact is incorrect. The team with the most points is the winner :)

We hope you like this listening text. The download below contains the listening in an mp3 file and a pdf with the audio script and the answer key. Click on the red button to download.

File: ISE I Health and Fitness Independent Listening

Why not try our other ISE I resources? There are conversation question cards, vocabulary handouts, listening activities, practice exams and reading/writing lessons for the different conversation areas :)